1. Solving Problems on the Blackboard in Slovenian High Education Mathematics Classrooms.
- Author
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Lipovec, Alenka and Antolin, Darja
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS education (Elementary) ,ELEMENTARY education ,TEACHING methods ,STUDENT teachers ,HIGHER education administration - Abstract
Students solving mathematical problems on the blackboard are an everyday routine in Slovenian classrooms. On the other hand, it is commonly known that students often consider this situation as threatening. In order to highlight this phenomenon, Slovenian elementary pre-service teachers (N=242) filled out an Internet questionnaire about preferred teaching techniques. Only a third of the participants saw this teaching technique as an effective method for learning. In a pedagogical experiment, three teaching techniques were probed in a problem solving based mathematics course with combinatorial and probability topics. Empirical results showed no significant differences in knowledge according to experimental groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2012